UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds

Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds by matthewmacleod on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:20AM (#17134833)

It's a bit weird that there hasn't been a decision about the mis-selling of "fibre" connections in the UK. Virgin's network is pretty great if you're not in an oversubscribed area, but it just seems weird to bill it as "fiber".

To be fair though, DOCSIS 3.1 can push 10GB through coax so it's not all bad.

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Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds by Rjevski on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @11:30AM (#17134936)

Yeah, so it's not fibre, and should not be sold as such. Not saying HFC is bad (it's actually an awesome way of reusing a deprecated cable TV network), but it's not fibre.

HFC for example is a shared medium across the entire neighbourhood, and in fact if you get root access on your modem and run tcpdump on the HFC interface you may see everyone else's packets as well - there's optional encryption built into DOCSIS but I've never seen it enabled.

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Re:UK ISPs have to stop lying about broadband speeds by pricechild on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @12:51PM (#17135667)

The ASA has made the decision to allow it.

It's annoying that we defer to them...

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